I had a remarkably similar conversation with someone just last night. She is slightly technical, I think she does something like "business strategy" or "marketing" or some other nonsense. Somehow we were talking about programming languages; naturally I mention Perl. And she says "Oh, it's old, does anyone actually use that anymore? I thought everyone used ASP, .NET, and...." (she may have listed some more, but I was pretty nonplussed at the time). I had to explain that it was alive and well, it's being used for some very advanced stuff (naturally it's automating a lot of the manual processes at my job, but I also recently attended a lightning talk about a guy doing real time trading applications(!) with Perl).

I further told her that at the end of this very month, there's a North American conference exclusively for Perl (and I'm doing what I can to help out with it, as I am now call myself a Chicago Perl Monger.

It's not just PHP, but all that other stuff. jsp, asp, etc. Perl is definitely (among some) given a very bad rep. And I really have no idea why.



--chargrill 
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+plit//=>$*
){$%++?$ %%2?push@C,$_,$":push@c,$_,$":(push@C,$_,$")&&push@c,$"}$C[$#
+C]=$/;($#C
>$#c)?($ c=\@C)&&($ C=\@c):($ c=\@c)&&($C=\@C);$%=$|;for(@$c){print$_^
+$$C[$%++]}

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In reply to Re: The REAL reason for why they choose PHP over Perl. by chargrill
in thread The REAL reason for why they choose PHP over Perl. by Spidy

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